The Boy Who Can't Forget (Superhuman Genius Documentary) | Real Stories

I get flashbacks of old dreams at any given random time.

crazy watching this today and thinking, "wow, this is amazing..." and then you realise you've already liked the video. 🤔

Bro tryna do another hit piece on Jill smh…

picking a date like when he went to a chocolate factory as a child. That would be an easy memory to remember i would think.

wonder what would happen if he smoked weed or took benzos

That Wired writer was such a pompous a$$.

Could they not technically learn launages in am instant

as Ai scientist should study this kids

he must be his class topper with such a excellent memory

Dear Jill. l hope you're still alive, and well. May the Lord Bless you and keep you. :)

I’d hate to be in an argument with this guy 😂😂 permanent receipts

I feel bad for Jill because 'Time Heals All Wounds' probably does not work for her

does anyone know if this is louis theroux narrating / with the body cam? it sorta sounds like him but idk EDIT: nevermind, it is definitely him - the actual title of this documentary-type-thing is "extreme love: autism" and it shows up on louis theroux's credits page on imdb (also not noted in the video description, although it's obvious to anyone who watched, but this is from 2012, a bit of a time capsule. it would be interesting to see a follow-up - at the time of my writing this, this was 14 years ago!)

i dont think everyone has the capability to empathize with Jill. She’s built up a lot of resentment towards the media due to her mistreatment and downplaying by them. This affects her daily life, it amplifies her depression, no one understands her, everyone always asks her “how” or “why”, she will never get answers to why this is happening, she will constantly have to explain herself. she cant really talk to anyone who gets it bc its not a common thing and there arent skills that are taught to cope w such a condition. that most definitely takes a toll on you through the decades. and yeah maybe she’s defensive and angry but it’s completely understandable and once you have enough empathy to realize that, her “attitude” shouldn’t affect you.

I remeber some days and did some things… I used to remember more but older I got started not to remember that much..

Having total instant recall. I would pay a fortune to have that if I could. The date thing is a parlor trick, anyone can do it. Test them on the news or something.

You ask him something , give him a clue, he enters in his memory library with that information and look for the year, month, date and whats happened of special or different on that day. After he will start to pull the thread and the information will all comes out😮❤

you will be surprised how many people with phd title is dumb af. they only learn narrow path without no broad knowledge how brain works

I wonder how Dr. Marcus can come up with such allegations without carrying out experiments as a scientist would do. Wow.

I can recall few things from when I was 4/5 months old. Now I am 29. The problem is, day by day my short-term memory is becoming weaker

I had this record when I was a little kid and made a promise to myself not to forget anything and sometimes it really sucks when you can't forget
https://youtu.be/4kaI1cVELK8?si=foAE1cj3ggoDg3O6

judge: where were you the night of october the 9th?

him: I don't recall

judge: 👀

Ohh, real life Sheldon Cooper there 😂

This documentary seems to pretend that this ability had never been documented before: "...And then suddenly there were 10 others who came forward!" But there are many individuals with extraordinary memories, including the ability to basically jump around through calendars of their experiences. The actress Marilu Henner (most famous to many of us for starring in the American sitcom "Taxi") is one of these. The most phenomenal of these was a reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky (1886-1958) who you can look up if you're interested.

Incidentally, there's a bit in Shereshevsky's Wikipedia article that reminded me of Jill Price's diaries: "His memory was so powerful that he could still recall decades-old events and experiences in the smallest details. After he discovered his own abilities, he performed as a mnemonist; but this created confusion in his mind. He went as far as writing things down on paper and burning it, so that he could see the words in cinders, in a desperate attempt to forget them." As she said, "You write it down so you don't go crazy."

It resonated with me because I have to do similar with information: Write it down to stop juggling it in my head. That can be something new I'm learning about, especially if there's a pattern to it that needs to be organized, but also "to do" lists where I'll have more than a dozen tasks going at the same time, and each of those will have the actionable components (e.g., get one of the materials required, now get a tool from another place, then look up a missing piece of information), so I write them down not to remember but to "forget" about them, at least on an emotional level. (And it also helps that if you write a list on a computer, you can sort it after the fact: by priority, by location, by how to delegate tasks, etc., but the act of writing was simply to get it out of my head so I could think about one thing instead of everything.

The tragedy of Jill's story in this piece is how an academic didn't learn enough about her to accurately profile her, hurting a woman who will NEVER forget that slight.

That's why when many people say they remember other incarnations, I don't doubt them.

Unreal in every way

@14:18...he stated Jill was the 1st person to come forward with this ability. it is a misnomer. Jill has been diagnosed with hyperthymesia where as people liek Fran peek or the lyman sisters, have been diagnosed with Autistic Savant Syndrome. SD perfect recollection has been studied since...1738 when Jedediah Buxton was described as being able to recall day/dates at a whim and was a master at calculations. 6 years later, on the articles accolades I assume, another case came to light of Thomas Fuller, with the same abilities.

So, I would call it the same vein of 0-60, fastest speed/time, in a 4-door car vs the record for a 2 door car or an 8 cylinder vs a 6 cylinder. The goal is the same, the a happenstance is the same, but the nuancing is different. Of note....the people with hyperthymesia are SLOWER at recalling than those with SD..so I guess they would be the 2 door car in that scenario :) Anotehr point is the SD peopel do not forget and misremember as the others DO on specific dates and events, which if you push...they will gloss over the reason for forgetting

He'd make a great witness in crime scenes 💀

It's like his brain never cleans the cache (as computers do), now the question is, how large is his disc size :D

I’m so curious about this ability. I understand they can remember but do they have to remember? Can they not live in the present? Thinking about the woman who is struggling with this. I would love to see their brains

That lass who was in the show "Taxi" has this too. Her name escapes me which is ironic.

It is so arrogantly presumptive to think you know all of the abilities of the human brain. When it is proven that we only even know the top surface of it. And then they agreed to the interview just so they can say, yes this actually happens to me,, and then be so cold experts start a mission to prove them wrong, which is wrong in and of itself because they let you into their lives and then you speak like this.

I wonder where they all are and what they are doing now...
I genuinely hope they're thriving.

I think the scientist need to clean his glasses

Tbh I'd rather have the 7 second memory, this sounds terrible, you would remember every embarrassing thing, every bad thought, every bad thing that happened to you. I hope he's okay and enjoying his talent.

I mean, having a book is a pretty good way to check one's facts

I wonder how many of us have super abilities that we just haven't tapped in to.

Jeeze, that Jill lady is a total witch. Very hostile.

dude thinks his LLM has a unlimited context window, no dude there is a limit

I reckon by the look on that nutter's face, he's lying.

they never asked how far back he can remember at what age and what happened on that day too many questions ... jill i think she writes to get these things out of her head and bless her heart she is tormented ... i wish she try something to wipe her mind

Imagine being married to someone that never forgets

Dr Gary Marcus driving me nuts I genuinely hope he gets amnesia

I have a theory for the future, all of the things we have ever done are locked away in our memory - it's always there just waiting to be recollected. With the increasing scientific work on brain activity I wonder if well into the future we might be able to plug into some electronic device of the future and 'watch' our own lives. Yes I realise how ridiculous it sounds but for example devices can already record a person's brain activity when they imagine writing or speaking, and instantly translate those thoughts into typed words on a screen.
Just a thought (pun intended)

I knew someone with a photographic memory he would literally remember what you where wearing a year earlier on a certain day his talent is not just given to him I'm from the UK some people don't shout about their gift. Like the person I knew.

This is episodic memory. Can he actually remember very fine details like what he's read and studied, or say account details and phone numbers used?? Imagine the power of that😮!